Weekly Spooky: Horror Stories & Scary Tales

Henrique Couto | Halloween Horror Expert | Master of Horror Stories
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Join Henrique Couto for Halloween horror stories and spooky tales! Explore urban legends, haunted houses, cursed objects, vampires, werewolves, and cryptids in expertly narrated, mature-themed stories perfect for spooky season. Every Monday and Wednesday, get scary frights with cinematic sound design, dark humor, and twist endings. Whether you're into horror stories, creepy legends, or seasonal specials, Weekly Spooky delivers the scariest stories for late-night chills, road trips, and binge listening. Discover more at WeeklySpooky.com, and fuel your spooky season with terrifying tales—mature themes included. Subscribe now for weekly updates on the scariest, most haunted stories, right in your ears!

  1. Terrifying & True | Castlerock Double Murder (1991): Staged as a Suicide Pact

    2H AGO

    Terrifying & True | Castlerock Double Murder (1991): Staged as a Suicide Pact

    A locked garage behind a quiet holiday cottage. A car filling with exhaust. And two bodies posed to tell a simple story: a suicide pact between two “betrayed” spouses. On May 19, 1991, in Castlerock, Northern Ireland, Lesley Howell (31) and Trevor Buchanan (32) are found dead inside a vehicle with a hose running from the exhaust into the car—an apparent double suicide that the community quickly accepts. Lesley is a mother of four. Trevor is a police constable and father. Both are mourned as victims of heartbreak and scandal. But the truth is darker—and it doesn’t surface for nearly two decades. Behind the public grief, investigators will later learn, a secret affair and a ruthless plan were allegedly shaping events from the shadows. Colin Howell, a respected dentist and lay preacher, and Hazel Buchanan (later Hazel Stewart) are accused of plotting to remove their spouses and stage the scene to look like a tragic decision. The story moves from a “straightforward” death scene to something far more chilling: sedation, exhaust fumes, meticulous staging, and a lie that holds until January 2009, when Colin Howell finally breaks and confesses—first to church elders, then to police. The confession reopens everything. Hazel is arrested. In court, the case becomes a battle over what was done, what was admitted, and whether Hazel’s role was coerced or fully complicit. The old garage scene is re-examined with a new question: not why would they do this? but who benefits if everyone believes they did? Inside this episodeThe discovery in Castlerock and why police initially believed it was a double suicideThe secret relationship hiding in plain sight inside a tight religious communityThe alleged method: sedatives + exhaust fumes and the “suicide pact” stagingHow the case stayed buried—until a confession detonated it in 2009The interrogation dispute: coercion vs. participationThe courtroom reckoning and the verdict that finally rewrote the official story This is a true crime nightmare about image, faith, control, and deception—and how a staged scene can trap the truth for years. We’re telling that story tonight.  🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week! 🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon! 👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join 📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story! Twitter: @WeeklySpookyFacebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpookyEmail: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com 🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here ! 👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com 🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder 🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com

    47 min
  2. Unknown Broadcast | Ghosts, Curses, and Deadly Secrets: Four Old-Time Radio Horror Stories

    1D AGO

    Unknown Broadcast | Ghosts, Curses, and Deadly Secrets: Four Old-Time Radio Horror Stories

    Unknown Broadcast returns, creeping once more through the cracks in the Weekly Spooky feed with four old-time radio horror stories carried in on grief, blood, confession, and candlelight. Tonight’s transmission wanders through classic OTR horror, ghost stories, gothic suspense, and vintage radio nightmares — the sort of tales that do not merely entertain, but wait. Patiently. Like something at the foot of the bed pretending not to breathe. 👻 The Ghost at the Gate Here, a widow keeps faith with the dead a little too faithfully. She sets a place for memory, pours tea for longing, and opens the door just wide enough for sorrow to step back inside. But the dead are poor houseguests, and poorer rivals. They do so hate being replaced. 🩸 Blood of Cain Then to New Orleans, where old sins have old roots, and family history is written less in ink than in stain. Some inherit fortunes. Others inherit grudges, curses, and the steady tread of vengeance climbing the stairs. Blood remembers. Blood always remembers. 📝 Statement of Employee Henry Wilson Next comes a statement, neat and proper on its face, which is often how guilt prefers to dress. A man explains what happened, and with each careful word the air grows colder, the walls draw nearer, and the truth begins to show its teeth. Confession can be such a generous thing… especially when it delivers a soul gift-wrapped to the gallows. 🕯️ Jane Eyre And at last, a governess arrives at a great dark house full of locked doors, guarded glances, and secrets with the good manners not to introduce themselves right away. Romance flickers in one corridor, dread breathes in another, and the whole place seems to listen when no one is speaking. Which, I think, is terribly rude in a home. So settle in for a strange little procession of classic radio horror, supernatural suspense, gothic drama, and old-time ghosts who have not yet exhausted their interest in the living. Four tales. Four thresholds. Four chances to decide whether the voice calling from the dark means to warn you… or welcome you home. 🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week! 🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon! 👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join 📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story! Twitter: @WeeklySpookyFacebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpookyEmail: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com 🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here ! 👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com 🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder 🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com

    2h 6m
  3. Ides of March: Four Horror Stories of Revenge, Backwoods Violence, and Roadside Monsters

    2D AGO

    Ides of March: Four Horror Stories of Revenge, Backwoods Violence, and Roadside Monsters

    Ides of March horror stories are all about the moment trust breaks—and someone decides to settle the score. In this March compilation from the Weekly Spooky horror podcast, four tales spiral from small-town cruelty to wilderness terror, from viral fame to blood-soaked karma, and from a lonely highway to something not quite human waiting in the dark. In this episode (in order): • Hell Hath No Fury — by Aaron Michael Cook A perfect evening curdles into humiliation and rage—until payback arrives with a smile and a blade hidden behind it. • Valley Rat — by Charles Campbell A simmering feud in a hard-scrabble town turns vicious, and the cost of cruelty comes due when the past won’t stay put. • Fortune Falls — by David O’Hanlon Two friends chase a wild view and a quick thrill—then realize the woods don’t forgive mistakes… and something out there is counting steps. • ROADKILL — by Travis VanHoose A late-night road, a predatory stranger, and a pickup that stops for the wrong reason—because the highway has teeth, and it remembers. If you love revenge horror, backwoods nightmare suspense, and roadside creature terror, this compilation is built for you. Keep your headlights bright… and don’t stop for anything you can’t explain. 🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week! 🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon! 👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join 📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story! Twitter: @WeeklySpookyFacebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpookyEmail: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com 🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here ! 👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com 🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder 🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com

    2h 2m
  4. Best of 2025: Ed and Lorraine Warren: The True Story Behind Annabelle, Amityville and The Conjuring

    3D AGO

    Best of 2025: Ed and Lorraine Warren: The True Story Behind Annabelle, Amityville and The Conjuring

    This Friday on Weekly Spooky, we’re bringing back one of the biggest and most exhaustive episodes of Terrifying & True we’ve ever produced. In this special episode we take a long, hard look at the couple who became the most famous names in American paranormal investigation. From Amityville and Annabelle to the cases that helped inspire The Conjuring, this episode explores how the Warrens built their legend — and why that legend remains so controversial. We follow their rise from local investigators to national figures in the world of hauntings, possessions, and demonology, then dig into the doubts, criticism, and conflicting accounts that have followed them for decades. It’s a deep dive into belief, fear, fame, folklore, and the uneasy space where the paranormal collides with performance. Because this is a Best of 2025 re-air, it’s the perfect chance to catch an episode that listeners may have missed the first time around — especially if you’re fascinated by haunted history, real-life paranormal cases, or the truth behind some of horror’s most famous stories. Inside this episode :• The rise of Ed and Lorraine Warren • The real stories connected to Amityville, Annabelle, and The Conjuring • Their occult museum and public image • The skeptics, critics, and controversies surrounding their work • Why their legacy still shapes paranormal culture today 🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week! 🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon! 👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join 📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story! Twitter: @WeeklySpookyFacebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpookyEmail: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com 🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here ! 👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com 🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder 🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com

    2h 38m
  5. Lady Frankenstein Returns: A Vampire Horror Chase (Scary Supernatural Thriller)

    5D AGO

    Lady Frankenstein Returns: A Vampire Horror Chase (Scary Supernatural Thriller)

    Vampire horror story meets supernatural thriller in this scary story of a daylight predator and a mother-daughter escape that turns into a high-speed chase. When Madelyne “Maddy” Donnerly recognizes a towering vampire woman in a parking lot, panic hits fast—because the monster from last winter is back, and she’s moving like she already knows who she wants. What follows is mall horror, small-town dread, and a desperate run for safety as buried family secrets start clawing their way to the surface. Set in the Strickfield universe, Lady Frankenstein Returns is tense, fast, and relentlessly creepy—where survival isn’t just about getting away… it’s about what wakes up inside you when the nightmare returns. Lady Frankenstein Returns — by Rob Fields 🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week! 🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon! 👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join 📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story! Twitter: @WeeklySpookyFacebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpookyEmail: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com 🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here ! 👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com 🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder 🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com

    27 min
  6. This Week in Horror History | Nosferatu, Angel Heart, The Mangler, Zodiac & Pontypool (Mar 2–8)

    6D AGO

    This Week in Horror History | Nosferatu, Angel Heart, The Mangler, Zodiac & Pontypool (Mar 2–8)

    This Week in Horror History (Mar 2–8) is your weekly horror movie release-date rundown—with where to watch (U.S.), a deep-cut spotlight, and a weekly recommendation built for early-March nights that still feel like winter. This week we’ve got silent-era vampire plague dread, occult noir doom, a killer laundry machine, and a true-crime obsession spiral—plus a Deep-Cut where language itself becomes the infection. Inside this episode ✅ Horror releases from Mar 2–8 Mar 4, 1922 — Nosferatu Silent-era plague-vampire terror that still feels unnervingly alive: shadow horror, eerie atmosphere, and Count Orlok stalking the roots of vampire cinema.Where to watch: Amazon Prime Video (subscription); AMC+ (subscription); Shudder (subscription); free w/ ads on Tubi, Pluto TV, The Roku Channel, Fandango at Home, Plex Mar 6, 1987 — Angel Heart A nasty occult noir spiral—each clue feels like a trapdoor, and the deeper the detective digs, the more the case starts digging into him.Where to watch: free w/ ads on Pluto TV; or rent on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, Apple TV Mar 3, 1995 — The Mangler The monster is the laundry press. Stephen King madness, industrial grime, and the kind of “how is this real?” horror premise that somehow works because it commits completely.Where to watch: rent/buy on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Fandango at Home Mar 2, 2007 — Zodiac A slow, suffocating true-crime obsession story—procedural dread, mounting paranoia, and the feeling that the case will never let you go.Where to watch: Paramount+ (subscription); free w/ ads on Pluto TV; or rent on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Fandango at Home 🎬 Deep-Cut Spotlight Mar 6, 2009 — Pontypool A snowbound radio station. A spreading panic. And an “infection” that moves through words—once you hear the wrong phrase, it’s already inside you. Where to watch: Philo (subscription); not available to rent/purchase on the usual digital services right now (DVD options exist) 🎂 Horror birthdays Mar 2, 1943 — Peter Straub Mar 2, 1980 — Ingrid Bolso-Berdahl Mar 4, 1973 — Len Wiseman Mar 7, 1946 — John Hurd ⭐ Weekly Recommendation Mar 8, 1972 — Tales from the Crypt Amicus anthology gold—mean, funny, cozy-in-a-campfire-way… with murder, revenge, and those perfect coffin-lid twist endings. Where to watch: free w/ ads on TubiTV, The Roku Channel, Plex; or rent on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Fandango at Home 🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week! 🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon! 👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join 📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story! Twitter: @WeeklySpookyFacebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpookyEmail: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com 🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here ! 👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com 🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder 🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com

    19 min
  7. Terrifying & True | Bonnie Hood Murder at Camp Nelson Lodge (1990): The California Double Jeopardy Case

    MAR 2

    Terrifying & True | Bonnie Hood Murder at Camp Nelson Lodge (1990): The California Double Jeopardy Case

    A remote mountain lodge in the Sierra Nevada. A busy wedding weekend. And a violent break-in after midnight that leaves one woman dead and a key witness barely alive. On August 19, 1990, in Camp Nelson, California, Bonnie Hood (46) is shot and killed inside a cabin at Camp Nelson Lodge, a secluded retreat in Tulare County. Her handyman, Rudy Manuel, is shot in the head—but survives long enough to describe what he says happened. Investigators initially believe it’s a robbery… until the details don’t fit: nothing of value is taken, and the attack feels targeted. The evidence leads prosecutors to Bruce (Edward) Beauchamp, and the case barrels toward trial. But when the jury returns a stunning verdict on March 29, 1991—not guilty on all charges—the investigation hits a legal wall. Under double jeopardy, Beauchamp can never be tried again for Bonnie Hood’s murder, no matter what new suspicions emerge. And then the story turns again. About a year later, on March 22, 1992, Beauchamp confronts Jim Hood, Bonnie’s husband. The encounter ends in gunfire—and this time the courtroom battle focuses on Jim Hood, not the man once accused of the original cabin murder. The trials that follow spiral into a web of motive, credibility, and forensics, culminating in a final verdict on December 9, 1993 that seals Jim Hood’s fate. Inside this episode The Night of the Cabin Shooting: what happened at Camp Nelson Lodge and why it didn’t look like a typical robberyThe Surviving Witness: Rudy Manuel’s account—and why it becomes so contestedThe Suspect & The Trial: how the case centers on Bruce Beauchamp… and what the jury ultimately decidesDouble Jeopardy: how one verdict can permanently lock a murder caseThe Second Shooting: the confrontation between Beauchamp and Jim Hood that ends with another homicideWhat’s Proven vs. What’s Alleged: separating courtroom facts from lingering theories If you’re drawn to California true crime, unsolved murders, and cases where the justice system itself becomes part of the mystery, this one is a chilling ride through a crime that never truly got its ending. We’re telling that story tonight. 🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week! 🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon! 👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join 📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story! Twitter: @WeeklySpookyFacebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpookyEmail: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com 🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here ! 👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com 🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder 🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com

    47 min
  8. Unknown Broadcast | The Coin That Won’t Spend: Four OTR Tales of Theft, Dread, and Deep Water

    MAR 1

    Unknown Broadcast | The Coin That Won’t Spend: Four OTR Tales of Theft, Dread, and Deep Water

    Unknown Broadcast is your strange little frequency of old-time radio horror stories, classic OTR suspense, and vintage radio mystery—the kind of signal that crackles with laughter one second and turns cold the next. Tune the dial just a hair too far…and you’ll catch the stories that weren’t meant to survive the night.  Tonight’s broadcast drifts from absurd crime to buried dread, from cursed good fortune to open-water peril—four classic radio tales where greed, fear, and bad timing all make the same sound: footsteps behind you.  Inside this episode: 🐘 “The Stolen White Elephant” — A ridiculous, escalating caper that turns into a full-blown hunt: detectives, headlines, and the impossible task of recovering a stolen white elephant before the whole city becomes the punchline. ⛏️ “The Digger” — Down in the dark where secrets go to rot, someone keeps digging… and the past starts pushing back. A tight, grim suspense tale where the ground feels alive.🪙 “The Golden Penny” (The Whistler) — A shiny little promise of luck—until it starts behaving like a lure. A fortune that buys trouble, and a trap that snaps with a smile.⚓ “Clear for Action” (Escape) — A maritime nightmare at full speed: danger on the water, enemy pressure closing in, and a desperate push to survive the next command… and the next blast.Some nights the dial lands on comedy, some nights on terror—but the signal is always the same: something is missing, something is digging, something is buying time… and something is closing in. 🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week! 🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon! 👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join 📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story! Twitter: @WeeklySpookyFacebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpookyEmail: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com 🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here ! 👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com 🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder 🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com

    2h 13m
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Join Henrique Couto for Halloween horror stories and spooky tales! Explore urban legends, haunted houses, cursed objects, vampires, werewolves, and cryptids in expertly narrated, mature-themed stories perfect for spooky season. Every Monday and Wednesday, get scary frights with cinematic sound design, dark humor, and twist endings. Whether you're into horror stories, creepy legends, or seasonal specials, Weekly Spooky delivers the scariest stories for late-night chills, road trips, and binge listening. Discover more at WeeklySpooky.com, and fuel your spooky season with terrifying tales—mature themes included. Subscribe now for weekly updates on the scariest, most haunted stories, right in your ears!

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  • Creator
    Henrique Couto | Halloween Horror Expert | Master of Horror Stories
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2026
  • Episodes
    939
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © Copyright Henrique Couto
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